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Sommario
Foreword by Ken Minkema (Jonathan Edwards Center & Online Archive, Yale University, USA)
Acknowledgments
Note on Text
The Yale University Press Edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Lost in Translation: The Problem of Edwards, Affections, and Emotions
Chapter 2: Human Affections in Patristic and Medieval Theology
Chapter 3: Human Affections in Post-Medieval Thought
Chapter 4: Young Jonathan Edwards’s Education in Affections
Chapter 5: Jonathan Edwards’s Early Psychology
Chapter 6: Enthusiasm, Passions and the Great Awakening Disputes over the Role of Affections in Religion
Chapter 7: Affections and Christian Apology: The Later Psychology of Jonathan Edwards
Chapter 8: Toward a Theology of Affections
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Ryan Jared Martin is Pastor of First Baptist Church of Granite Falls, MN, USA.
Riassunto
This volume argues that the notion of “affections” discussed by Jonathan Edwards (and Christian theologians before him) means something very different from what contemporary English speakers now call “emotions.” and that Edwards’s notions of affections came almost entirely from traditional Christian theology in general and the Reformed tradition in particular.
Ryan J. Martin demonstrates that Christian theologians for centuries emphasized affection for God, associated affections with the will, and distinguished affections from passions; generally explaining affections and passions to be inclinations and aversions of the soul. This was Edwards’s own view, and he held it throughout his entire ministry. Martin further argues that Edwards’s view came not as a result of his reading of John Locke, or the pressures of the Great Awakening (as many Edwardsean scholars argue), but from his own biblical interpretation and theological education. By analysing patristic, medieval and post-medieval thought and the journey of Edwards’s psychology, Martin shows how, on their own terms, pre-modern Christians historically defined and described human psychology.
Prefazione
Explores how Jonathan Edwards’s notion of affections functioned in his broader theology, and why his understanding of “affections” should not be conflated with the contemporary category “emotions”.
Testo aggiuntivo
“Jonathan Edwards predicates his argument in Religious Affections on the distinction between affections and passions. Contemporary writers who think only in terms of emotions typically fail to grasp the significance of this distinction, consequently losing much of Edwards’s argument. Ryan Martin has done superior work in tracing the history of this distinction and teasing out its significance for Edwards. His work constitutes an important corrective to several current misconceptions.”
